Category: News

Seneca Light and Water has experienced water main breaks on highway 188. As a result, Walhalla has issued a boil advisory for all customers served by Seneca Light and Water in the following areas: Keowee School Road (SC 188), Evatt Road, Knox Road south of Evatt Road, Fisherman’s Lane, Pointe Harbor Drive, Logan Hill Drive, Pointe West Drive, McDonald’s Point, […]

Seneca has announced a boil water advisory for its customers in the area of S-C 188, including Westwood Bay subdivision. A broken water line has necessitated the advisory, according to Bob Faires, utilities superintendent. Besides Westwood Bay, the advisory area runs along 188/the Keowee School Road to Elizabeth Cain Drive and takes in the following locations: Luther Land Road, Beacon […]

Mayor Danny Edwards says Walhalla will meet a deadline next week to file an application for as much as $500 thousand from the Appalachian Regional Commission. It’s money that Walhalla would apply to its downtown streetscape project. As the result of last night’s streetscape work session, the mayor says he and council cut out project items to bring the total […]

West-Oak students attended the engineering competition this week at the University of South Carolina. Attending Project Lead The Way and Gateway to Technology were West-Oak Middle School students Leevi James, Maddy Lee, and Drew Jacobs and West-Oak High students Tim Wayman, Garrett McGuffin, and Dustin Drake. This was the first year that middle school students were invited. For their solution […]

Westminster’s retail electric power customers will have to dig deeper into their pocketbooks to make good on their bills. 96.3/WGOG NEWS has been told that at last nights meeting, the city council unanimously voted to pass on the costs of a 7.3% increase from its electric power wholesale supplier to its retail customers. The increase will take effect in May […]

An accident early last night near Seneca required medical treatment for a roadside worker. According to a report received by 96.3/WGOG NEWS, a truck stuck a trailer being used to set safety cones in place, ahead of a re-paving project on 123. The truck driver was sent to the hospital.

At no charge, a Greenwood company has given Walhalla’s elected leaders an idea of what it could cost to re-work a four-block section of the downtown business district: #359 :15 “…FOR FREE.” At the start of an informal City Hall meeting, Mayor Edwards last night referred to a Greenwood company’s estimate of $2.3 million that gives Walhalla a kick-start in […]

About 25 people—and two squirrels—made up the audience last night for the Oconee Sheriff’s pitch to build a new jail on the cemetery side of the Law Enforcement Center in Walhalla. Two squirrels, running loose inside the Walhalla Depot building, proved to be a minor distraction as third-month Sheriff Mike Crenshaw tested the waters as to how neighbors would feel […]

The new up-and-running industrial electronics center opened by Tri-County Tech in the Sandy Springs Community sees an industrial prospect tomorrow. And Doug Allen, the acting dean of the engineering and technology division, said it’s a follow-up to an earlier meeting . . . and he’s hopeful something will be finalized during tomorrow’s meeting. Allen says though this particular prospect has […]

A dinner meeting next week will address plans for the first Oconee Farmers Market. The Oconee Young Farmer and Agribusiness Association invites everyone at 6 o’clock Tuesday night, March 19 at Seneca High School. Christina Alexander, ag teacher, says arrangements are being made for Gwen McPhail and Stanley Gibson to speak about the farmers market planned for highway 123 near […]